Musk: Elon Musk calls Threads a ‘copycat’ app over this feature – Times of India

Threads is as direct a competition as Twitter has faced. The app — backed by the might of Meta — has a lot of features that are very similar to Twitter. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, in a post on Threads, said that the app is looking to counter the spam attacks on the app. “Spam attacks have picked up so we’re going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to mean more unintentionally limiting active people (false positives). If you get caught up [in] those protections let us know.” What Mosseri means is that a lot of Threads users — the more prolific ones — may see some limits on viewing the posts. Mosseri, however, has said that users should report if they see too many restrictions.
A few days ago, Elon Musk announced a similar limit for Twitter users which restricted them seeing beyond a number of tweets. Musk didn’t miss the chance to take a jibe at Threads. A Twitter user had posted a screenshot of Mosseri’s post to which Musk replied “Lmaoo” followed by an emoji implying Threads had copied the feature from Twitter.

Read limits on Twitter

Earlier this month, Twitter implemented some restrictions to stop “extreme levels of data scraping” from “several hundred organisations” and “system manipulation.” Musk had expressed his concern about the aggressive scraping of Twitter data by numerous organisations. This practice has been so extensive that it has negatively impacted the user experience, said Musk.
According to Musk, companies using large amounts of data to train artificial intelligence language models are to blame. “Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data.”
While Threads’ reasons may be different, it will end up encountering the spam and bot accounts that have plagued Twitter as well.